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In this article an attempt has been taken to assess the elasticity of revenue expenditure on basic goods and services for groups of households in Poland, separated using an income criteria. Coefficients of elasticity have been assessed basing on estimated Working models, using unpublished raw data, on individual households from the household budget survey conducted by the Central Statistical Office in 2006. Based on the survey can be concluded that the highest values of co-factors were income elasticity for the households of the first group of income - up to 200 zł / person / month. These households were characterized by a high elasticity of expenditure for all of the analyzed consumer goods and services, including food. The lowest income elasticity occurred in the highest income group - above 1700 zł / person / month. Demand for food and soft drinks, alcoholic beverages and tobacco, as well as housing and energy carriers in these households was close to saturation level and demand for other goods and services was not very flexible and classified them as a basic level group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author examines the personal resentment that resulted from cross-border travel by Poles and East Germans during the period 1971-1989. It is explained that in January 1972 the German Democratic Republic and Poland eased travel restrictions on their citizens as a means of deepening relations between the two countries. While significant number of Poles traveled to Germany there was a rise in personal tensions and xenophobia as Poles were perceived to be buying up East German food, clothing and consumer goods.

Estimates a four-equation disequilibrium model of the consumption goods market in a centrally planned economy in Poland, for the period between 1955-1980. Description of the simple disequilibrium model for Poland; Plan-adjustment equation; Equation for the supply of consumption goods.

This article informs that the profound crisis in which Polish society currently finds itself encompasses not only the economic system, which is unable to produce necessary consumer goods, and the political system which is incapable of effectively steering the economy, it also involves an identity crisis in this society. An identity crisis signifies that society is unwilling to accept any longer its former self-image, that it ceases to recognize itself in its hitherto popularized tradition which, as a result, loses its integrating force. It includes both a legitimation crisis of the political order, the rightfulness and equity of which becomes questioned in public, and a motivation crisis in which the cultural system during the socialization process fails to provide individuals with the sense of meaningfulness that would stimulate the kind of activity required by the state and the socio-economic system. in general the evolutionary approach to nation and world society adopts the notion of development as long-term, directional, structural change. Theories of development usually construct models of stages ordered in accordance with the criteria of increasing differentiation and specialization of elements in the system, and their integration. In addition, certain writers introduce a number of other criteria indicating directions of development, and permitting the identification of its various stages.